Margaret Morris

Prof Margaret Morris leads the Environmental determinants of obesity research group within the Department of Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences UNSW Sydney and is co-lead, Diabetes obesity and metabolic disease clinical academic group of SPHERE. Her research addresses critical questions concerning how provision of a varied, energy rich diet can override the control mechanisms that otherwise maintain body weight, with a particular focus on the brain-gut axis, and cognitive decline using rodent models.  The impacts of parental obesity, cycling between healthy and unhealthy diets, and time restricted feeding, on the nexus between metabolic health, composition of the gut microbiome and cognitive function is a key interest. Currently funded by NHMRC and ARC, Prof Morris has successfully supervised 34 PhD students to completion and published over 300 peer reviewed articles.